{"id":28976,"date":"2020-06-30T17:01:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T11:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=28976"},"modified":"2020-06-30T17:01:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T11:31:22","slug":"covid-19-vaccination-must-be-affordable-universal-prime-minister-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=28976","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 vaccination must be affordable, universal: PM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

PTI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delhi:<\/strong> Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday reviewed India’s preparations for vaccinating its vast population against COVID-19 once a vaccine is available and asserted that vaccination must be affordable and universal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Modi chaired a high-level meeting to review planning and preparations for vaccination against the novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

At the meeting, the current status of vaccine development efforts were also reviewed and the prime minister highlighted India’s commitment to play an enabling role in the vaccination efforts against COVID-19, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Prime Minister Modi noted that vaccination of India’s vast and diverse population will need to factor in issues, including those related to management of medical supply chains, prioritisation of at-risk populations, coordination between different agencies involved in the process, as well as the role of private sector and civil society, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

The prime minister enunciated four guiding principles that will form the foundation of this national effort, the PMO said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

He stated that vulnerable groups should be identified and prioritised for early vaccination, for example doctors, nurses, healthcare workers, non-medical frontline COVID-19 warriors, and vulnerable people among the general population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Another guiding principle enunciated by the prime minister was vaccination of anyone, anywhere should take place without imposition of any domicile related restrictions for getting the vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

The third principle enunciated by the prime minister was that vaccination must be affordable and universal and no person should be left behind, according to the PMO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

According to the fourth principle, the entire process from production to vaccination should be monitored and supported in real time with the use of technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Prime Minister Modi directed officials to evaluate in a broad manner available technology options that can form the backbone of the national endeavour to vaccinate all in the most efficient and timely manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

The prime minister directed that detailed planning for such large scale vaccination should be undertaken immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PTI Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday reviewed India’s preparations for vaccinating its vast population against COVID-19 once a vaccine is available and asserted that vaccination must be affordable and universal. Modi chaired a high-level meeting to review planning and preparations for vaccination against the novel coronavirus. At the meeting, the current status of vaccine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}